Guy Mannering Everyman's Library by Scott Sir Walter (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. One corner bumped. A few ex.library stamps. 434pp. Jacket has edgewear and chips.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. Guy Mannering or The Astrologer. Small closed tear to spine. Slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners of cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 431 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A 1964 reprint of a work first appearing in an Everyman's Library edition in 1906. Sir Walter Scott's second novel in his Waverley series was first published in 1815. Alternately titled "The Astrologer," this is the story of the struggles of characters in southwest Scotland in the 1760s-80s, with some parts set in Holland and India. With a preface and glossary by W. M. Parker, and an introduction by the author. Everyman's Library #133. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full black cloth-covered boards with coppery gilt spine titling and interlocked "EL" at tail of spine; orange topstain. In yellow dust jacket variant with black & white image of Harry Bertram (a character in the novel) as a child to front panel. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy. Dust jacket with a chip to head of spine and a streak of dark soiling to mid-spine, else in excellent condition and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xiv, 434 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, 1957 EARLY REPRINT, EX-LIBRARY USUAL WEAR POCKET stamp ETC, LARGER FORMAT, Small blue cloth with Copper gilt on Spine Cvr, 434 pgs, index Glossarey, BACK OF DJ STATES A FEw OF 500 AUTHORS ,A CENTRAL CHARACTER IN THIS NOVEL writen in 6 wks at Christmas WRITING ABOUT COUNTRY PEOPLE IN A REMOTE CORNER OF SCOTLAND. Missing Heir, story of Henry "Harry" Bertram, the son of the Laird of Ellangowan, who is kidnapped at the age of five by smugglers after witnessing the murder of of a customs officer. It follows the fortunes and adventures of Harry and his family in subsequent years, and the struggle over the inheritance of Ellangowan. The novel also depicts the lawlessness that existed at the time, when smugglers operated along the coast and thieves frequented the country roads.